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Jon Meacham • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
experience, rather than honors, mattered most to him.
David Von Drehle • The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The price was never paid by the war’s leaders. As a U.S. Army officer in Iraq wrote in 2007, “A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.” The cost for Americans fell on the bodies and minds of young men and women from small towns and inner cities. It was unusual to meet anyone in uniform in Iraq who
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Hobson’s choice.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Still, a certain uneasiness spread among his students. Colleagues had begun to question his powers of reason. Admirers were saddened to see him stumble over facts, contradict himself, or…
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David McCullough • Brave Companions
Following the war, the Southernmost City once again became a thriving tourist destination, and though now the pirates and the wreckers are gone, as are the turtle-raising corrals and the sponge divers and the cigar factories and the Cuban rollers and their lectors, who read newspapers and novels aloud while they worked, and the blustery big-game-hu
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
